Boris Johnson and Tories predicted to win the biggest majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher

The first exit polls are in...and by the looks of it, the Conservatives will walk away with a sizable majority, with 368 of the Commons 650 seats.

With a predicted majority of 86 seats, this would be the biggest majority for the Tories since the days of Margaret Thatcher.

PM set for return to Downing Street with 368 seats for the Tories and 191 for Labour.

Boris Johnson appears on course to secure a crushing majority of 86, and take Britain out of the EU in January, after a shock exit poll showed his party would win 368 seats in Thursday’s general election.

That would be the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher’s third election victory in 1987; and mark a dramatic repudiation of Jeremy Corbyn’s offer of “real change” for Britain.

If the poll is vindicated as results come in, the Conservatives will have smashed through the “red wall” of Labour-held seats across Wales and the Midlands, many of which voted leave in the 2016 EU referendum.

The exit poll suggests Labour are set for a hugely disappointing night, with the party forecast to secure their lowest number of seats for decades.

At the last election in June 2017, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn saw his party win 262 seats.The exit poll numbers would give Prime Minister Boris Johnson a Commons majority of 86, vindicating his decision to push for a winter election.

It also puts the UK on course to leave the EU on 31 January, after Mr Johnson fought the election campaign on his promise to "get Brexit done".

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